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API Security

Protect all your APIs from increasingly frequent attacks and data theft.

Discover — and gain visibility into — all APIs to defend against threats

API Security gives you full visibility into your entire API estate through continuous discovery and real-time analysis. Learn how to identify vulnerabilities and analyze API behavior so you can detect attacks and remediate risk in this fast-growing attack surface.

Eliminate a common security blind spot

Discover your complete API estate

Find and inventory all your APIs — including shadow, zombie, and rogue APIs — with continuous discovery and monitoring.

Identify vulnerable APIs

Audit for the API vulnerabilities and misconfigurations that attackers target, including all of the OWASP API Top 10.

Mitigate business logic abuse

Use contextual insights to identify risks such as data leakage, suspicious behavior, malicious bots, and API attacks.

How API Security works

Discover

Discover

Generate a comprehensive API inventory, including how many — and what type of — APIs you have.

Test

Test

Add security to your CI/CD pipeline, without sacrificing speed, to secure APIs before putting them into production.

Detect

Detect

Identify API vulnerabilities and attacks with automated, machine-learning-fueled detection.

Respond

Respond

Create advanced workflows to remediate API issues by integrating with your WAFs, SIEMs, and ITSM tools.

What’s the impact of an API security incident?

More than 1,200 security pros reveal how API incidents impact their bottom line, reputation, and teams’ stress levels.

Gartner® Market Guide for API Protection

Get ahead of the next big attack vector: API abuse. Learn about product capabilities, vendors, market direction, and more.

Gartner® Market Guide for API Protection

Akamai named an API security Leader, Fast Mover

In an evaluation of 13 different API security vendors, analysts named Akamai a Leader in the marketplace.

Gigaom Radar Report 2024 leader API Security

Akamai named an API security Leader, Fast Mover

In an evaluation of 13 different API security vendors, analysts named Akamai a Leader in the marketplace.

Features

  • Assess API traffic with a native connection to Akamai CDN and integrate with your API gateways, load balancers, or WAFs
  • Discover APIs, domains, and related issues for HTTP, RESTful, GraphQL, SOAP, XML-RPC, and JSON-RPC APIs
  • Identify the types of sensitive data that your APIs can access and track user access to those APIs
  • Analyze APIs for OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks and prioritize vulnerabilities by impact for rapid remediation
  • Understand API context with visualizations of business logic, physical network infrastructure, and API traffic flows

  • Continuously monitor for compliance with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and internal policies
  • Use machine learning to identify anomalous usage, API attacks, data leakage, tampering, and policy violations
  • Block API attacks in real time and set up advanced workflows to accelerate remediation and increase SOC effectiveness
  • Fully integrate with your existing CI/CD pipelines and automatically run 200+ tests that simulate malicious traffic

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Customer Stories

API Security Use Cases

Learn how Akamai API Security can safeguard your digital business and its data on several fronts.

Test APIs before putting them into production

Test APIs before putting them into production

API testing is critical for your API security strategy because it helps organizations “shift left” — detecting and fixing vulnerabilities such as business logic abuse earlier in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), before APIs reach production.

With API Testing, you can automatically run 150+ dynamic tests that simulate malicious traffic, including against the OWASP Top 10 API Security Risks. Schedule tests to run automatically at desired intervals at any stage of development.

Learn from our API security experts

Join us as we dig into the technical side of API security in our "If Your APIs Could Talk" monthly series.

Resources

Discover the critical capabilities of API Security

Learn which API Security capabilities can help you prevent attacks through hands-on examples, including:

  • Discovery and monitoring: Instantly detect and respond to threats with our 24/7 monitoring system
  • Alerts: Investigate how posture and runtime alerts are handled
  • Easy integration: Seamlessly integrate with your existing tech stack, no matter the complexity

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